The criminal case against Michael Flynn imploded Friday.
The criminal case against Flynn began when President Donald Trump's former national security adviser pleaded guilty Dec. 1, 2017, to lying to the FBI about conversations he'd had with the Russian ambassador following Trump's election.
After Sullivan harshly rebuked Flynn and suggested Flynn might spend time in jail, the retired lieutenant general accepted the longtime judge's offer to have the sentencing hearing continued until Flynn's cooperation was complete.
Things remained static until Mueller announced on May 29, 2019, that "The investigation was complete, and that the special counsel's office had been closed." One week later, Flynn fired his Covington & Burling lawyers, Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony, and replaced them with Powell.
"We have a lawyers' unofficial understanding that they are unlikely to charge Junior in light of the Cooperation Agreement," one email read, referring to Flynn's son, also named Michael Flynn.
After Powell informed Van Grack that Flynn would not testify that he had knowingly filed false Foreign Agent Registration Act statements in the government's criminal case against Flynn's former business partner, prosecutors added Flynn Jr. as a last-minute witness in that criminal case.
After the breakdown between the prosecutors and Flynn, an FBI agent contact Flynn Jr. directly even though Flynn Jr. had an attorney.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/27/robert-muellers-case-against-michael-flynn-is-about-to-implode/
The criminal case against Flynn began when President Donald Trump's former national security adviser pleaded guilty Dec. 1, 2017, to lying to the FBI about conversations he'd had with the Russian ambassador following Trump's election.
After Sullivan harshly rebuked Flynn and suggested Flynn might spend time in jail, the retired lieutenant general accepted the longtime judge's offer to have the sentencing hearing continued until Flynn's cooperation was complete.
Things remained static until Mueller announced on May 29, 2019, that "The investigation was complete, and that the special counsel's office had been closed." One week later, Flynn fired his Covington & Burling lawyers, Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony, and replaced them with Powell.
"We have a lawyers' unofficial understanding that they are unlikely to charge Junior in light of the Cooperation Agreement," one email read, referring to Flynn's son, also named Michael Flynn.
After Powell informed Van Grack that Flynn would not testify that he had knowingly filed false Foreign Agent Registration Act statements in the government's criminal case against Flynn's former business partner, prosecutors added Flynn Jr. as a last-minute witness in that criminal case.
After the breakdown between the prosecutors and Flynn, an FBI agent contact Flynn Jr. directly even though Flynn Jr. had an attorney.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/27/robert-muellers-case-against-michael-flynn-is-about-to-implode/
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